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Galileo defended himself in the letter by saying that challenging the prevalent religious doctrines of his day, arguing that the disagreement is with their perception, not the context. Galileo believed that science was a very helpful instrument that might and ought to have been applied in reading the Bible.
His ideas were threatening to the Church authority because the scientists' findings ran counter to church doctrines that the cosmos is orderly and stable.
The broader implications of his ideas were that one could support the heliocentric model without directly challenging the Bible. The Scientific Revolution was starting to cause issues for religion at the time this letter was written.
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